Torbay Symphony for All
Wednesday 28 March 2018 in the Riviera Centre at 6pm

On Wednesday 28 March, over 200 students will join members of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for a massed ensemble celebration of music at the Riviera International Centre, Torquay. Students aged between 7 and 21 from 8 schools around Torbay get the chance to rehearse and perform with BSO musicians as they perform the world premiere of a new piece of music titled Torbay Symphony for All.

It is well-known that during the 20th century St Ives in Cornwall was home to some of the world’s leading modern artists. Now Plymouth College of Art and the Black Mirror research network are working to raise awareness of the presence of influential female Surrealists in Cornwall, through the Seeking the Marvellous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women & Surrealism symposium, which will be held at the college on 22 and 23 March 2018.

Aggrieved and listless faces of local taxi drivers stare out defiantly at the viewer in photographer Matthew Joseph’s latest series, examining the impact that Uber has had on local taxi drivers and their businesses across New York, Paris, Cape Town, Johannesburg, London and Rome.

Dartington International Summer School & Festival28 July – 25 August 2018Dartington Estate

Dartington International Summer School & Festival has announced the concert programme for its 70th Anniversary curated by renowned pianist and artistic director Joanna MacGregor. Over 100 concerts from outstanding names in the music world have been confirmed.

Opium use by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is said to have inspired the fantastical Asiatic landscape in his epic poem Kubla Khan. Thomas De Quincy described his drug-induced visions in Confessions of an Opium Eater.

Duos come and duos go. And some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something original, captivating and award-winning. Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have entwined their professional and personal relationship into a class act of imaginative songwriting and musicianship.

In their long and successful careers Michael McDonagh Wood and Veronica Charlesworth are renown for their watercolours. But they explore their own themes, and they have been doing so for decades. And the couple are the focus of the March exhibition at Torquay’s Artizan Gallery.

Plymouth Arts Centre and The Gallery at Plymouth College of ArtThursday 29 March to Wednesday 30 May 2018

Internationally-renowned and award-winning British painter Rose Wylie will be the subject of ‘History Painting’, a new multi-site exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre and The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, featuring a cycle of new work about the Mayflower voyage, created for this exhibition between 2015 and 2017.

East Cornwall Bach Choir (ECBC) Singing Day organiser Sharon Lambert writes: ‘East Cornwall Bach Choir is delighted to announce that the work for our annual singing workshop for 2018 will be ‘The Armed Man – a Mass for Peace’. We chose this piece (composed in 1999 by the Welsh musician Karl Jenkins, b.1944), to commemorate the millions who died in the World War I, which ended 100 years ago this year.

Plymouth Contemporary Artist Showcase 2018Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of PlymouthFriday, March 2 to Thursday, March 29

After two hugely successful contemporary exhibitions in 2015 and 2017, Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of Plymouth, is presenting a special showcase of four artists from the 2017 exhibition, recognised for contributing new ideas across film, animation, painting and drawing.